Sarah Palin won't have the spotlight to herself in Iowa next weekend, according to the Des Moines Register:

Tea party-backed activist Christine O’Donnell will take the stage at Saturday’s tea party rally in Indianola shortly before Sarah Palin, an organizer told The Des Moines Register today.

O’Donnell, author of the book “Troublemaker: Let’s Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again,” lost a bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Delaware last fall.

Her race caught national attention after a video aired on the Internet of O’Donnell in the 1990s saying she once dabbled in witchcraft. To counter the criticism about the clip, O’Donnell ran a campaign advertisement in which she declared “I’m not a witch. I’m nothing you’ve heard. I’m you.” She later called the ad a mistake.

Palin endorsed O'Donnell in her primary against then-Rep. Mike Castle almost exactly a year ago. That may have been a political high point for O'Donnell, whose political image has deteriorated badly since then, and who now isn't the kind of person most presidential candidates would want to be associated with.